BOLSONARO CRUSHES POLLS, LULA STUMBLES TO RUNOFF | WAR ROOM AM W STEVE BANNON

Sunday's vote flipped the script. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro finished first with about 47% of valid votes and 56.1 million ballots. President Lula took about 45% and 53.8 million. Neither cleared 50% plus one. Runoff is set for October 25. Early returns looked close enough to an outright win that the right was watching the 50% line. Final tallies still gave the right its strongest first-round presidential result since 1989. Saturday's Quaest survey had Lula at 46% of valid votes and Bolsonaro at 45%. The count went the other way. Steve Bannon and Paulo Figueiredo walk through why the spread blindsided pundits, and why that miss matters for the Trump movement and MAGA here. Alan Das Passos, who joined Saturday, is also on the Brazil beat. Bannon opens the hour on a rightward pull across the region, comparing the feel to Brexit in June 2016 ahead of the November win. Recent presidential races in Colombia, Chile, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Costa Rica went to the right. Brazil is the biggest remaining test. Congress and the states moved with it: the Liberal Party is on track for the largest Senate bloc, Michelle Bolsonaro and Carlos Bolsonaro won Senate seats, and Tarcísio de Freitas was reelected governor of São Paulo. Bannon ties part of the shift to USAID being shut down, and says that thread is coming later in the show. The remaining first-round field was small, about 8% combined, and mostly to the right of Lula. Question for the audience: Does Flávio Bolsonaro's first-round lead make the October 25 runoff his to lose, or can Lula still close it? #WarRoom #SteveBannon #BrazilElection #FlavioBolsonaro #Lula #RealAmericasVoice #MAGA #LatinAmerica #October25 Welcome to the War Room. Steve Bannon brings you the most important news from around the world. Watch LIVE on Real America's Voice, seven days a week at 10:00 AM EST., and again at 5:00 PM EST. M-Sat. Visit WR show archive: https://americasvoice.news/playlists/show/the-war-room/